Mulcair may survive, but for how long?

While Tom Mulcair may prevail in April, a less than 70 per cent endorsement will be seen as tepid, or provisional. Whether he is the one to lead his party into the next election in four years will become a matter of constant, covert conversation.

The reason Tom Mulcair's NDP failed was a lack of originality, hope and daring—in their campaign iconography and in their message, writes Susan Riley.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright